On 29 Jan 2005 at 20:09, Aaron Sherber wrote: > At 07:53 PM 01/29/2005, David W. Fenton wrote: > >Eh? If the account existed and was on spammers' lists before you > shut >down the Everyone.net hosting, then it's just leftover and > coming >through just because the account is still active (or you have > crazily >set up a catch-all, which is useless in the age of spam, in > my >opinion). If you shut down the Everyone.net host entirely, the > >spammers would still be sending to those email addresses, they just > >wouldn't go anywhere. > > My email address is the same as it was (now I'm reluctant to even > mention it, but it's in the header of this email <g>). A month ago, I > changed the MX records for sherber.com from Everyone.net to a > different hosting service. DNS takes two or three days to propagate, > but surely after 4 weeks there can't be any DNS records still pointing > to Everyone.net. > > The sherber.com *account* still exists at Everyone.net, since I just > haven't gotten around to cancelling, and so I can still log in to > webmail there -- and when I do there are a few new spam messages each > day. Since any legitimately sent email would pick up the new MX record > and wind up at my new host, I conclude that the only way spam winds up > in the Everyone.net box is by hacking the Everyone.net SMTP server. > But I'm willing to listen to other explanations.
I strongly doubt that's a valid explanation. Much more likely is that the spammers are using an SMTP program that caches the DNS information for too long. I think too many people are willing to scream "HACKERS!" instead of thinking about valid explanations that don't involve nefarious activity. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
